“I used to be a big fan of [Kevin Garnett],” he said. “Some of the antics he’s pulled lately, you don’t need to do that as a star player. I’ve never seen Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant or even a Dwyane Wade do that….”

“You can compete and play hard, that doesn’t need to be a part of it. It really doesn’t,” he said. “To do that to someone you can seriously hurt him,” he said. “You know the fact that all of a sudden Channing comes down on his foot twice on jump shots that’s a very dangerous play.

“If you’re asking me, yeah, I lost a little respect for him. I love his competitive nature but there is no place for what he was doing in our game.”

If you think we are done with this, remember that the Suns travel to Boston on March 2. So no, it will come up again.

Bosh is a fake tough guy but KG cursing and picking on Channing Frye, Jose Calderon and Charlie Villanueva makes him a tough guy? The last true tough guy in the NBA was Charles Oakley. As Simmons wrote in his book after speaking with someone who knew Oak personally, he just “dont give a f***.”

I’ll combine two of these comments; if Oakley was still in the league, or Dale Davis, or maybe young Shaq (on another team), Garnett would have been put on the ground enough to realize what a b**** he is. Or maybe he would have actually developed some toughness, who knows. I didn’t see any of this when guys like Malone were still in the league. Give him some credit. He’s in a league where the best big men in the game are nice-guys Dwight Howard and Tim Duncan, or finesse guys like Nowitski or Gasol. Why not perpetrate like you’re a real intimidator? Who’s going to shut you up, Al Horford?